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Readings and Reflections on Public Space

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Readings and Reflections on Public Space
ByAnthony M. Orum, Zachary Neal
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2009
eBook Published 31 July 2009
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203873960
Pages 240
eBook ISBN 9780203873960
Subjects Development Studies, Geography, Urban Studies
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Orum, A.M., & Neal, Z. (2009). Common Ground?: Readings and Reflections on Public Space (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203873960

ABSTRACT

Public spaces have long been the focus of urban social activity, but investigations of how public space works often adopt only one of several possible perspectives, which restricts the questions that can be asked and the answers that can be considered. In this volume, Anthony Orum and Zachary Neal explore how public space can be a facilitator of civil order, a site for power and resistance, and a stage for art, theatre, and performance. They bring together these frequently unconnected models for understanding public space, collecting classic and contemporary readings that illustrate each, and synthesizing them in a series of original essays. Throughout, they offer questions to provoke discussion, and conclude with thoughts on how these models can be combined by future scholars of public space to yield more comprehensive understanding of how public space works.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |10 pages

Locating Public Space

part |2 pages

PART 1: Public Space as Civil Order

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter |14 pages

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

chapter |8 pages

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

chapter |9 pages

The Character of Third Places

chapter |7 pages

The Moral Order of Strangers

chapter |19 pages

Street Etiquette and Street Wisdom

part |2 pages

PART 2: Public Space as Power and Resistance

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter |17 pages

The End of Public Space? People’s Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy

chapter |10 pages

Fortress L.A.

chapter |8 pages

Whose Culture? Whose City?

chapter |11 pages

Dispersing the Crowd: Bonus Plazas and the Creation of Public Space

chapter |12 pages

Defying Disappearance: Cosmopolitan Public Spaces in Hong Kong

part |2 pages

PART 3: Public Space as Art, Theatre, and Performance

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter |10 pages

Art and the Transit Experience/Creating a Sense of Purpose: Public Art and Boston’s Orange Line

chapter |6 pages

The Harsh Reality: Billboard Subversion and Graffiti

chapter |9 pages

The Paradox of Public Art: Democratic Space, the Avant-Garde, and Richard Serra’s “Tilted Arc”

chapter |14 pages

Those “Gorgeous Incongruities”: Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth Century New York

chapter |12 pages

Soundscape and Society: Chinese Theatre and Cultural Authenticity in Singapore

chapter |13 pages

Conclusions

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